“The past is of no importance. The present is of no importance. It is with the future that we have to deal. For the past is what man should not have been. The present is what man ought not to be. The future is what artists are. The facts: nothing matters but the facts: worship of the facts leads to everything, to happiness first of all and then to wealth.” MenShouldFirstsHas BeensMatterFactsPastArtistWealthDealsOughtWorshipImportanceNothing Matters Author:Edmond de Goncourt
“As a general truth, it is safe to say that any picture that produces a moral impression is a bad picture.” ArtArtistMoralProducePaintingSafeImpression Author:Edmond de Goncourt
“One of the proud joys of the man of letters - if that man of letters is an artist - is to feel within himself the power to immortalize at will anything he chooses to immortalize. Insignificant though he may be, he is conscious of possessing a creative divinity. God creates lives; the man of imagination creates fictional lives which may make a profound and as it were more living impression on the world's memory.” IfsMenWorldFeelsMayBookJoyArtistImaginationMemoriesCreativeHe ManProudConsciousLettersProfoundImpressionDivinityInsignificantPossessing Author:Edmond de Goncourt
